Not exact matches
19 August 2014: An Oscar - winning director has
made a feature
film about the baby milk
issue.
After getting some blowback for criticizing a program that indirectly benefited her as Miranda Hobbes in the two Sex and the City movies (actors» salaries are not eligible for the subsidies, and the long - running TV show completed
filming before the program was created), she
made it clear she was serious
about the
issue, as the New York Post reported:
She and her colleagues published another paper in the same
issue of Journal of Heredity
about blue macaws, the charismatic and threatened parrots
made famous by the animated
film Rio.
* documentary filmmaker - I
make films about social
issues * teacher - I teach socially conscious filmmaking to children...
Even when it turns turbulent, the
film sustains its warm summer glow, and
makes itself a conversation piece
about the moral
issues it means to raise.
That the
film makes almost zero sense is besides the point; those worrying
about what Frank's job is, how Mitch's nerdy co-workers find out
about the fraternity, or why Mitch's standard -
issue love interest Nicole (Ellen Pompeo, who looks like a more sandy - haired Renée Zellweger) has any interest in the doofus will be flummoxed by the gaping holes in logic and narrative cohesion on display.
During the interview, Hooper talked
about if he felt any pressure following up Les Miserables and The Kings Speech, the experience of
making a
film about transgender
issues when the subject is so timely, when he first realized Redmayne and Vikander would deliver such tremendous performances, deleted scenes, how his first cut compared to the finished
film, if he's conscious of
making «awards»
films and whether he want to break out of that, future projects, and so much more.
Talks
about making a
film about transgender
issues when the subject is so relevant and such a part of the zeitgeist.
There are a lot of things to admire
about the 12 -
issue miniseries (from its multilayered narrative to its psychologically complex characters), but the Holy Bible of comic books it is not, and that only
makes reviewing the
film adaptation even more difficult.
The biggest
issue found in Future Weather is how the
film pushed its conservation message into as many scenes as possible,
making it seem more
about saving the environment than
about its characters.
Now he has
made a
film set in Albania, in Albanian
about an
issue most have never heard
about.
For all of his obvious skills and uncommon talent as a visual storyteller, Kosinski's first two
films were short on character depth and emotional engagement, but whether a function of Kosinski's innate preferences for spectacle over substance or simply script - related
issues, Kosinski's feature -
film output
made him an odd, left - of - field choice to direct a
film about American firefighters and the Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013 that resulted in the greatest loss of firefighters since 9 - 11 more than a decade earlier.
Finally, he's
made a
film about something larger than daddy
issues, and in so doing, even
made me slightly more empathetic toward his entire career.
The
issue is not that the
film fails to «repair» these three marriages, or to showcase some sort of profound personal growth in these individuals; for a movie that seems sincerely curious
about what
makes healthy relationships work, it taps only into their most familiar problems, and then relies on cute, superficial solutions to them.
The
film isn't
about the central
issue at stake; it's simply a character - study of one woman going through life who decides to
make a specific choice when faced with a difficult situation.
Mysterious and ethereal, the German
film (given Sonvilla's documentary -
making history, perhaps) brings into question
issues about Europe's future.
Gary Oldman
makes the iconic role of George Smiley his own, but he's
about the only thing in this bleak
film that I have no real
issue with.
Clooney has repeatedly said he's not looking for a career change, but at the Toronto International
Film Festival, where his new
film «Suburbicon» is screening, he
made it clear that he won't stop speaking out
about the political
issues he cares
about.
Granted, the earlier
films never
made a big deal
about characters chowing down (and I don't recall Diego taking a bite since the series began, though perhaps he has), but this time our heroes spend so much time stranded at sea that starvation and eating should be an
issue.
In the end, I am going to go with my gut instinct
about the
film and judge it not by the title or lack of thematic focus, and give Estevez his due in
making a compelling
film about a plethora of interesting
issues, with tie - ins to events that effectively contrast to the state of today's world.
Without
issuing directives nor suggesting that only
films made by and / or
about women be eligible, we asked members to suggest titles they?d like to see on AWFJ?s Top 100
Films List.
Redmayne has publicly positioned his interest in
making this
film as an effort to raise further awareness
about transgender
issues, and perhaps Hooper et al. similarly wanted to capitalize on the timeliness of the subject in an effort to raise further awareness.
«We wanted to
make the
film entertaining and funny at the same time as we're dealing with complicated social
issues,» says Ostlund of his
film,
about a suave museum curator (Claes Bang) whose life unravels when his wallet and phone are stolen.
This speaks, of course, of larger industry problems, of
issues of funding and distribution, of what stories get
made and marketed to larger audiences, of which
films get studio backing, which stars get cast, etc. but it nevertheless seemed rather telling that stories of young black men and cross-cultural relationships, and foreign
films about burgeoning and belated sexual awakenings end up ghettoized this way.
Rather than face these
issues and the people involved, she accepts a job
making a
film about the ship - breakers of Chittagong, beaches that are the graveyards of decommissioned liners, an environment with safety
issues, full of men with tragic stories.
What I care
about is that indie authorship gains a viability and respect to sit alongside indie
film and indie music, so that when someone
makes the decision of how they want to publish, the
issue or fear of stigma doesn't enter into the decision at all.
Introduction by Renske Janssen will feature a live phone interview with Lawrence Weiner himself all the way from France;
about the motivation for
making this
film and the way it relates to current
issues in art and society, a question which forms the backdrop of the presentation.
Central to all of Shonibare's work, which includes sculpture, painting, photography, and
film -
making, is the debate
about social, cultural, and political
issues that shape history and constructs identity.
Produced by CFACT and CDR Communications in the one - of - a-kind entertaining and informative style that has
made CFACT's award - winning ClimateDepot.com one of the world's most sought after sources for reliable, hard - to - find facts
about climate
issues, this groundbreaking
film tears the cover off of global warming hype, and exposes the myths and exaggerations of this multi-billion dollar
issue.